Enabling Advanced PDF Features in PixTools 8.3

Prior to the recent PixTools 8.3 release, PixTools supported Image Only PDF files. With the new release, the following PDF types will also be supported:

Image only

Image plus text

Vector

Non-vector

Mixed Raster Content

JBIG2 compressed

JPEG 2000 compressed

PDF 1.6 and later compression using JPEG2000

To get the newer PDF features enabled in your code, see the function SetPDFRendering in the below listing. The code in this function must be called before the ReadFileDriver object is created. This is because the PDFRendering property must be set prior to making the ReadFileDriver instance. Here is a code excerpt illustrating how to enable the new PDF features in PixTools 8.3: